Excerpt from Innovation Economy Digital Town Hall with Gwen Ifill and Arne Duncan
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12/7/10: At the COP16 climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, Bangladesh Minister of the Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud, a PhD environmental scientist, responds to GOP claims that there are not any threats from climate change to the developing world.
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Iran struck a defiant note as talks began anew with the U.S. and five other countries over its nuclear ambitions.
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Facing strong criticism from Democrats over a tax-cut compromise, President Obama said Tuesday that his willingness to compromise with the GOP doesn’t mean he’s reluctant to stand behind core principles.

At a news conference, he called making middle-class tax cuts permanent “a line in the sand.”

The president said his job is “to make sure we have a North Star out there” for Americans, and that at any given time, he may not be able to get “my preferred option.”
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Former President Jimmy Carter speaks with Ray Suarez about his new book “White House Diary,” written from the daily journal that he kept as president. He also talks about working closely with Republicans in Congress and how that sense of cooperation is “completely absent now” in GOP dealings with the Obama administration.
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Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect discusses the way economic elites have created deficit fervor when the majority of the population is concerned about jobs and services.

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Bill McKibben of 350.org explains that farmer’s markets and local shopping change the way humans connect and increase our happiness in a way that shopping at supermarkets and building bigger, isolated houses doesn’t.

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Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Center for Labor Renewal asks why we’re busy talking about freezing federal workers’ pay and not about Wall Street billionaires.
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Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, notes that politicians in power seem willing to ignore evidence and sell out the future of the planet for very short-term political gain.

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Robert Kuttner explains that progressives need to organize and create a movement that either pushes Obama in a more progressive direction or finds a progressive candidate to replace him.

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Julian Assange turned himself in Tuesday — he’s been arrested and is being held without bail in London ahead of a hearing on extradition to Sweden. The head of the “stateless” news-leak organization WikiLeaks is accused of sexual assault –and let’s be clear, he should face the charges.
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Though there is little hope for a binding international agreement from the current round of climate talks held by the United Nations in Cancun this week, there is something different about the conversation. Tina Gerhardt reports that countries who are in attendance at the talks aren’t talking about future consequences of global climate change, but instead talking about the crises they are suffering right now.
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Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, notes that the allies for the movement against climate change are social justice and human rights groups, trying to solve the human problems that come with global warming.

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